Eddie Redmayne

When he began signing for cinematic parts, British lead Eddie Redmayne took full advantage of his sweet, open-faced, and congenial appearance, ironically selecting a series of roles that required him to project an undercurrent of intransigent, occasionally pathological emotional extremity blanketed by a cover of innocence. He made his first significant mark in 2006 with two such psychologically demanding roles: that of Alex Forbes, a young murderer cracking under the weight of a severely dysfunctional friendship with his second victim and his own father's mistreatment in the psychological thriller Murderous Intent; and that of Edward Wilson Jr., a CIA suit's son reeling from his father's emotional removal in Robert De Niro's ambitious period drama The Good Shepherd. In 2007, Redmayne waxed equally intense as a young homosexual who commits rueful matricide in Tom Kalin's Savage Grace, and -- on a slightly different note -- donned period costume for a small role in Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age. He stayed in his Tudor garb for a small role as Mary Boleyn's husband in The Other Boleyn Girl. In 2011, he played future filmmaker Colin Clark in My Week With Marilyn, chronicling Clark's time as a production assistant on the set of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl. Redmayne next showcased his singing voice as revolutionary Marius in 2012's Les Miserables. He followed that up with a star-making turn playing theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014), a part that earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor. Redmayne had similar success the following year, nabbing another Academy Award nomination for The Danish Girl.

Quotes from Eddie Redmayne's Characters

Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe:

I can feel myself getting better when I listen to your pencil.
You've always sketched me better than I was. But what you draw, I become.
You made me beautiful. And now you're making me strong.
Such power in you.

Stephen Hawking:

Look what we made.

Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe:

I think Lili's thoughts, I dream her dreams. She was always there.

Stephen Hawking:

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, while there is life, there is hope.

Jane Wilde:

So, I take it you've never been to church?

Stephen Hawking:

Once upon a time.

Jane Wilde:

Tempted to convert?

Stephen Hawking:

I have a slight problem with the celestial dictatorship premise.

Stephen Hawking:

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

Stephen Hawking:

Thank you.

Jane Wilde:

Excuse me, did you say something?

Stephen Hawking:

I said -- thank you.

Marius:

Life without Cosette means nothing

Marius:

Life without Cosette means nothing.

Sir Laurence Olivier:

She's quite wonderful. No training, no craft, no guile, just pure instinct. Astonishing.

Colin Clark:

You should tell her that.

Sir Laurence Olivier:

Oh, I will. But she won't believe me. That's probably what makes her great, yet it's certainly what makes her so profoundly unhappy.

Lucy:

Did she break your heart?

Colin Clark:

A little.

Lucy:

Good, it needed breaking.

Colin Clark:

It's agony because he's a great actor who wants to be a film star, and you're a film star who wants to be a great actress. This film won't help either of you.

Eponine:

Hey there Monsieur what's new with you? Plotting to overthrow the state? You still pretending to be poor? Come on, I know your grandpa's rich!

Marius:

Won't take a franc that I've not earned. All of those bridges have been burned.

Eponine:

I like the way you talk Monsieur!

Marius:

I like the way you always tease!

Eponine:

Little he knows. Little he sees.

Gordy:

"This is your fate. Now you gotta play this out till the end or else you're gonna walk around like a ghost the rest of your life."

Gordy:

This is your fate. Now you gotta play this out till the end or else you're gonna walk around like a ghost the rest of your life.

Eponine:

Don't you fret, Monsieur Marius. I don't feel any pain. A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now. You're here. That's all I need to know. And you will keep me safe, and you will keep me close, and rain will make the flowers grow.

Marius:

But you will live, 'Ponine, dear God above. I could heal your wounds with words of love...

Marius:

But you will live, 'Ponine, dear God above. I could heal your wounds with words of love.

Every day
You walk with stronger step
You walk with longer step
The worst is over

Marius:

Every day
I wonder every day
Who was it brought me here
From the barricade?

Enjolras:

Marius, you're late.

Joly:

What's wrong today?
You look as if you've seen a ghost.

Grantaire:

Some wine and say what's going on!

Marius:

A ghost you say... a ghost maybe
She was just like a ghost to me
One minute there, and she was gone!

Marius:

[about Cosette] Eponine, find her for me!

Eponine:

What will you give me?

Marius:

Anything!

Eponine:

Got you all excited now, but God knows what you see in her! Aren't you all delighted now?

Marius:

[Marius offers her money]

Eponine:

No, I don't want your money, sir.

Marius:

In my life, there is someone who touches my life. Waiting near...

Eponine:

Waiting here...

Marius:

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

Marius:

Empty chairs at empty tables.

Marius:

There's a grief that can't be spoken. There's a pain goes on and on. Empty chairs at empty tables...now my friends are dead and gone.

Marius:

There's a grief that can't be spoken. There's a pain goes on and on. Empty chairs at empty tables... now my friends are dead and gone.

Marius:

Here they talked of revolution, here it was they lit the flame. Here they sang about tomorrow, and tomorrow never came.

Marius:

A heart full of love.

Marius:

Here they talked of revolution
Here it was they lit the flame
Here they sang about tomorrow
And tomorrow never came

Marius:

Here they talked of revolution. Here it was they lit the flame. Here they sang about 'tomorrow' And tomorrow never came.

Marius:

Who is that girl?

Eponine:

Cosette.

Marius:

Empty Chair at Empty Tables, where my friends will meet no more.

Marilyn Monroe:

Don't forget me.

Colin Clark:

As if I could.

Colin Clark:

Here's what I remember most: her embrace. Her belief in me. And the joy she gave. That was her gift. When I think of her now, I think of that time when a dream came true. And my only talent was not to close my eyes.

Eddie:

"The rich get richer and the poor get the picture."

Eddie:

The rich get richer and the poor get the picture.

Sir Laurence Olivier:

She's quite wonderful. No training, no craft, no guile, just pure instinct. Astonishing.

Colin Clark:

You should tell her that.

Sir Laurence Olivier:

Oh, I will. But she won't believe me. That's probably what makes her great, yet it's certainly what makes her so profoundly unhappy.